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GSM8KactiveMathematics

GSM8K: Grade School Math 8K

Metric: Accuracy (higher is better)Introduced: 2021

8,500 grade school math word problems requiring 2–8 steps of arithmetic reasoning. Widely used for evaluating chain-of-thought reasoning; top models now near 100%.

Models ranked

10

tracked on this benchmark

Score band

95.7 – 80.6

best → lowest tracked

Snapshot trend

+2.37

May 28 → Jun 25 · 1 models

Leaderboard

Tracked models ranked by Accuracy (higher is better).

Compare candidates
#Model variant and provenanceScore
1
Llama 3.1 405B
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
95.7
2
Granite 4.1 30B
Version: 8-shot, instruct model (accuracy)Harness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: Jun 7, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
94.2
3
Llama 3 70B
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
93.0
4
Granite 4.1 8B
Version: 8-shot, instruct model (accuracy)Harness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: Jun 7, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
92.5
5
Nemotron-Labs TwoTower 30B-A3B Base
Version: 8-shot, accuracy; default TwoTower diffusion decoding at confidence_threshold=0.8, block_size=16, BF16 on 2xH100; evaluator/harness not published on the model cardHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: Jun 25, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
90.1
6
Gemma 2 27B
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
89.7
7
Granite 4.1 3B
Version: 8-shot, instruct model (accuracy)Harness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: Jun 7, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
86.9
8
Phi-3 Mini 128K
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
84.9
9
Qwen2-7B
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
82.7
10
Llama 3 8B Instruct
Version: Not recordedHarness: Not recordedEvaluator: Not recordedObserved: May 28, 2026Confidence: Not recordedSource
80.6

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Last reviewed: Apr 15, 2026